Last name change for green card holder

[briancole 1]

Okay, this may be moved, but I couldn't find anywhere else this made sense, this is the closest relevant forum, imo.

I brought my wife to the States recently after getting married in her native country of Peru. At the time we decided not to have her name changed since it would complicate identification documents for her while in Peru (since they use 2 last names). Now that she's here, she wants to change her last name to match mine. How would I go about doing that? I've looked all over the USCIS website and I cannot find anything that matches this situation. We went to the social security office and the agent there told us to present our Peruvian marriage certificate at the local immigration office to process the change, that the marriage should do that automatically. Is that still the case since we were married in Peru and did not do any kind of name change?

[nickbits 43]

File I90 to get a new GC then update SSN and other docs.

[Anh map 2,098]

Name changes are done through the courts, not USCIS. Contact your local clerk of court office to find out the procedure.

*Moved from IR1/CR1 forum to Moving Here and Your New Life in America forum*

Edited May 16, 2012 by Anh map